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A. G. DE AGUIAR.

BAGASSE DRIER AND FURNAGE.

Patented Apr. 10,` 1888.

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ABELARDO G. DE AGUIAR, OF HAVANA, CUBA.

BAGASSE DRIER AND FURNACE.

SPECIPCATION forming part o' Letters Patent No. 380,999, dated April l0, 1888.

Serial No. 242,023.

(No model.)

` mill, and by means of a suitable construction convey it around or over the boilers so that the heat from the said boilers will cause the moisture in thebagasse or refuse cane to evaporate. By this means the bagasse will be rendered dry enough to be fed to the fires, and my im proved apparatus is intended and constructed so as to feed it automatically when in this condition.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure l is a plan view embodying the principal features of my invention. Fig. 2 is an end elevation,partlyin section. Fig. 3 is a partial longitudinal section. of the covers of the conveying pipes or conduits.

In the drawings, A is a hopper or receiving- "trough provided with feeding-rollers B B.

Into this hopper is fed the bagasse or refuse cane after it leaves the sugar-1nill. After the bagasse or refuse cane passes through the feed ingrollers B B, it enters one end of the conduit or canal C. This conduit or canal consists of a cylindrical pipe extending along and outside of one of the boilers D, and connects at its farther end with another conduit or canal of the same cross-section, which extends transversely of the boilers D D as far as the outer edge of the farthest boiler. At this point it connects with a third conduit or canal which extends alongside of the last boiler and down to the inner end thereof, where it connects with a fourth conduit or canal which extends along in front of the inner ends of all the boilers. Located within all of these conduits are helical or spirally shaped drivers, which are provided with shafts for rotating the same. In Fig. 1, at the lower end of the drawings, I show the spirallyshaped driver or worm E,

Fig. 4 is a detail viewv having the shaft F, the latter being provided at its inner edge with a cog-wheel, G, which gears with the second cog-wheel, H, upon the shaft I. Upon the shaft l are also mounted the pulley-wheels J, which receive the belt for driving the machinery. The shaft I extends laterally along the outside of the conduit or canal C, and is provided at its other end with a beveled wheel, K,whieb gears with asecond beveledwheel, L, the latter being mounted upon the shaft M, which carries the helical or spirally shaped driver N, rotating in the conduit or canal C at the rear end of the boilers. The farther end of the shaft M is provided with a beveled wheel, O, which gears with a smaller beveled wheel, P, the latter being at tached tothe shaft Q,extending along the other side of the boilers. rlhis shaft Q, is provided with a cog-wheel, It, which gears with a second cog wheel, S, attached to the shaft of driver U, located within the conduit or canal C upon the third side of the boilers.

The cog-wheel G is mounted upon a shaft, G', which is provided with a cogwheel, G, which gears with a cog-wheel, G, mounted on a shaft, GW, which latter is provided with a beveled wheel, K', gearing with a second beveled wheel, K. The latter is mounted upon a shaft, V, which extends through the conduit or canal C in the front of the boilers, and upon this shaft is mounted the helical or spirally shaped driver U.

Vhen the bagasse or refuse cane enters the hopper A, itis acted upon bythe feeding and regulating rollers B, which are driven by any suitable source of power, which serve to feed the said bagasse or refuse cane into the conduit or canal C, and by means of the juxtaposition of said rollers to regulate the quantity or amount of the feed at all times. When the bagasse has entered the conduit or canal, it is caught by the rotating helicalshaped driver E, and is conveyed forward in the said conduit or canal as the driver E rotates. When it has reached the end of the first conduit or canal, it discharges into the end of the second conduit Vor canal, and by means of the driver N is again conveyed forward along the rear ends of the boilers until it reaches the farther end of said conduit.

into the third conduit or canal, extending parallel with the sides of the boilers, and by IOO At this point it discharges (N0 Model.)

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